My First Opening Night
As you may or may not know, I got into theatre and acting last year after growing up in an area that is completely deprived…
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A Tragic End
by @cypherpunk106 January 24, 2018I bit my lip, avoiding letting the words in my mind come out. “What’s wrong, babe?” Malcolm asked inquisitively. I sighed, looking down at the ground. “There’s been something I’ve been meaning to tell you. I haven’t told... Read More -
Test Your Reactions
by @jamesrxss January 22, 2018Emoji’s are really fun, that’s plain and simple. They’re also pretty useful, and they’re used thousands and millions of times every single day. We even have 3D emojis now. Everyone I know uses them, even my dad. I use them, probably a little bit too much. There are hundreds to choose from and I use […] -
These Boots Are Made For Walking
by @jamesrxss January 22, 2018Vlogging is something that I’ve always toyed with the idea of doing. But who really cares about me, my life, and what I’m doing day to day? Ive got to say, I’m pretty boring! However, today I decided to film my day in a different way, all you can see is my feet. Sounds boring, […] -
Turns Out I Can’t Draw Either
by @jamesrxss January 22, 2018So, I’ve always fancied myself as a bit of a doodler, thought I wasn’t too bad at all. I thought today, I’d put that to the test. Oh how I regret that. What a bloody mistake, I can’t draw for toffee, there is literally nothing that I am good at clearly. Anyway, I was pitted […] -
Dystopian future in a GIF?
This assignment is part of an animated GIF unit and is called “Splain that Dystopia in Six Slides“. The assignment is to simply create a GIF in a slide style to explain how a Dystopian future came to be. A Dystopian future is basically a place regarded as an unpleasant place to live. Storys like […] -
Putting my best foot forward
I struggled to decide on a idea for my video assignment but after watching some old videos of mine I decided to stick to the one where you film your feet for the day. I took inspirations from videos such as the man who took a picture of his face every day which has the … Continue reading Putting my best foot forward → -
A NOTEable story
When asked to make a gif using post- it notes I had many ideas. The first was an alien shooting a gun but that did’t go as I had intended and was much harder to draw the same several times in a row than I first thought. As someone who is known for being an … Continue reading A NOTEable story → -
The James Bond that never made it to Hollywood…
This unit was about mashups and the assignment is called “I’m ready for my close up“. This assignment was about taking a close up of a person or an actor and replacing the background with something completely irrelevant. I decided for mine I’d want to make it into the first draft of a movie poster […] -
Star Warped
I’ve only become a Star Wars fan recently but my boyfriend has been the biggest fan for years. So purely due to peer pressure I’ve now seen every film and know more about the franchise than I ever wanted to know. In return for making me watch all the films I made my boyfriend watch … Continue reading Star Warped → -
Dan reacts to…
This assignment for ds106 was part of a video unit was called “DS106ers React!“. Not too recently there was a lot of controversy surrounding channels on youtube that were labelled as “React Channels” these channels were simply videos of people reacting to other videos. The reason they sparked up a lot of talks online […] -
Hearing places…
This ds106 assignment was part of an audio unit and was called “Create a place“. The aim of the assignment was to use audio to paint a picture of a scene and put the listener there in the location. This assignment really shows the importance of audio in that it can be used to create […] -
Ode to my hat
When I saw this assignment was to take pictures of a mundane object in different ways I took a while deciding what object to use. After a while I thought about the hat that my parents had got me for Christmas. Every year they seemed to set themselves the challenge of finding the weirdest hat … Continue reading Ode to my hat → -
Buzzfeed Quiz’s: School Social Groups
This assignment is from the Web unit of ds106 and the assignment is called “Buzzfeed Personality Quiz“. In this assignment, I had to design and create a Buzzfeed quiz with over 3 results and it had to have 6 questions. I decided for mine that I would take inspiration from the breakfast club and do […] -
Travel, Photography, and Design!
This assignment within ds106 looks towards the designing of a postcard of a destination. For me this was great as before Christmas, I and my girlfriend went to Edinburgh for a short weekend city break. Whilst I was there I took many photos on my Nikon D3200 and got some great shots that could be used […] -
The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree
by @jamesrxssanimated GIF, AnimatedGIFAssignments, AnimatedGIFAssignments1766, Assignments, Best Work, SyndicatedJanuary 18, 2018So, the other week I made my first ever GIF using GIFFY. And now I bring to you, GIF number two. Im getting good at it, I have to say. I even added an effect this time to make my pen look like an etch-a-sketch – love it. I made a short flip book style […] -
Movement Effect With Photography
The first assignment I have chosen is called in ds106 “Averaged Portrait” and in short basically consists of taking multiple photos of the same subject but in multiple positions with little movement. This makes a blurred effect as if the photo was taken with the subject moving when in reality it was multiple images taken with a […] -
My favourite sounds
You can listen to my favourite sounds here! As a media student I have a large interest in radio so the audio assignments were definitely something I’ve been looking forward to starting to create. This assignment in particular caught my eye as there are a lot of sounds in my life that I associate with … Continue reading My favourite sounds → -
Repeat After Me
by @jamesrxss January 12, 2018Many artists now a days find their fame on the internet, take Justin Bieber, for example. But how do they start? Most artists start by covering pre-existing songs and music online, to build up a following. This shows off their voice and talents to remix to a certain extent, but also leaves writing originals either […] -
VIDEO ASSIGNMENT
We shall start off with this trailer I created for a stand alone batman film. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/movie-trailer/ So with this trailer I decided to mash in Suicide Squad scenes and Batman V Superman scenes to create this trailer. The film will basically be Batman losing himself due to The Joker poisoning him making Batman fighting between … Continue reading VIDEO ASSIGNMENT
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AUDIO ASSIGNMENT
I have done a few of these so I will first post the links to all the assignments done in this blog, then go through them all one by one. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/funny-singing-voice-over/ http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/covers-soundtracks/ So to start off I did a Darth Vader singing edit to Rocky Horror Sweet transvestite This is how it was made … Continue reading AUDIO ASSIGNMENT
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We’re All Friend’s Here
by @jamesrxssAssignments, Best Work, ds106, family friendly billboard, social media production, Syndicated, tech2002, Visual, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1973January 3, 2018Billboards are found all over in America, but not very often in the UK. Often, on social networking sites such as Facebook, memes are made from funny, supposedly real billboards. These funny or mildly offensive billboards, whether real or fake can often do wonders in helping a company or brand go viral in it’s advertising, […] -
Minimalist movie poster
Beetlejuice is maybe my favourite film. Its such a classic, funny film and I absolutely adore it. When I looked at other examples of minimalist posters I instantly began brainstorming ideas for a poster based off of my favourite film. My initial idea was to have the word title of the movie and then the … Continue reading Minimalist movie poster →
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The Crazy Bunch
An assignment that really caught my eye and made me excited to work on was ‘We’re the real life Brady Bunch’ after completing the last image assignment ‘Family friendly billboard’ I instantly came up with an idea and ran with it. To recreate this famous picture of The Brady Bunch I used photoshop. I liked … Continue reading The Crazy Bunch →
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Now You’ve Lost Me
by @jamesrxss December 21, 2017I’m British, and basically it’s a long story but that somehow automatically enrols you in being a MASSIVE fan of the Great British Bake Off. (Pre Channel 4 I have to say, but that’s another story. Us British also seem to love going to a maze, whether it’s in a formal garden of a country […] -
We’re Just Glad that Russia Guy is Leaving the Ice Cream for the Rest of Us
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Looking Back To The Past (WRITING)
So for this section I have decided to look back at older projects that I have done and then do a little write up on them to explain them and why I created them and also a little bit about each one. I will start off with older videos and end with newer videos so … Continue reading Looking Back To The Past (WRITING)
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Storytelling Through Pictures (DESIGN)
With this assignment I collected a few of my photos through the years and put them on here for showcase, a lot of them are like mountain climbing ones as I love climbing high on mountains and take in the view as it’s breathtaking climbing up mountains and then seeing the views, and to go … Continue reading Storytelling Through Pictures (DESIGN)
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Who Inspires You (WRITING)
So I decided to choose this section for this part of the assignment now I am going to go into detail with this as I have a few people that inspire me for certain reasons. To start off with the first person that inspires me is the musician known as LIGHTS The reason that she … Continue reading Who Inspires You (WRITING)
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